Sunday, October 24, 2010

Update Pictures: 100 Pounds Gone!

I am amazed, thrilled, overjoyed, and even stunned when I look at myself in the mirror in these size ten jeans. I keep wondering if I am dreaming!

I took my measurements, too. In just the last ten pounds, I have lost in the strangest places:

3/4" off my neck
1/4" off each wrist
1/2" off each calf
1/2" off my waist
3/4" off my hips
3/4" off each upper arm (yes!!!! Finally!!)
1 1/2" off my bust (I am in a B cup for the first time in 20 years! Always wore C or D before. And yes I am glad about this!)
1 1/4" off each thigh

I could also tell you that my calves are now the same size my neck was when I weighed 278 pounds, and that I have lost 14.75" off my hips since I started this journey. I could share that my waist is 10" smaller now and my thighs each lost 6 3/4" over the last 100 pounds. I might tell you how my jeans went from a size 26/28 to a 10, and my tops went from 3X and 4X to a Medium.

But instead, I'll show you.

Now:

Cute pockets, huh? :)

I am so proud of this. I finally, FINALLY actually feel good about my body.

But, you ask, will she give a head-to-toe, full body shot, including her head?

So excited for you. You look great. I'm always inspired by reading your blog. I don't only find your weight loss inspiring but your approach to life in general. You make me determined to make the most of my life and give myself and my family the gift of the best health possible. Congratulations on the 100 lbs lost and best wishes for continued success. Susan

You look fabulous! Even better with a head! Congratulations on this tremendous accomplishment. You have worked long and hard and deserve to feel wonderful about yourself. Thank you for the inspiration.

Wow...you look fantastic! Congratulations again!! I would love to see a before and after of your face because my face is like a totally different person right now with my weight on. I don't recognize myself in photos, and I know if I will lose the weight my face will look much different....maybe closer to what I remember? Although losing 50 pounds will probably not make me look like I lost 20 years. ha. Congratulations again, and thanks for sharing your journey.

You look wonderful, but vanity aside, good on you for taking your health in hand and making the most of your life. Your children will thank you for it every extra moment they have a vibrant, health mom.

You have done such a great job of losing weight and you look absolutely wonderful. Your blog is an inspiration to those of us that are still on our weight loss journey. Congratulations and can't wait to be where you are in my weight loss.

I began in August 2007. I lost 64 pounds by summer 2008, but then I lost NO weight (well, battled the same 20 pounds up and down and back up) through this past February, 2010 when I weighed 234 pounds. So this last 56 pounds took me almost 8 months.

Not sure what you mean about my hair texture... what do you see that's different? It's longish and naturally wavy/curly. The color may vary depending on what shade I choose to color it! :)

sure! These measurements are taken without clothes on (underwear/bra only) and I measure without compressing or squishing the fat. Since my fat is highly compressible, I can squiash it into a smaller space :)

Do you measure your waist at your natural waist or your belly button? I realise we are actually very comparable in measurements, that is kind of neat to find someone around my height and size to look at!

I don't feel I look nearly as awesome as you do! :D This makes me smile to know that I can see my size on someone else (you!) and see someone who looks fabulous! You look fabulous!!

Congratulations, and thank you for your inspiring blog. Your happiness seeps right through cyberspace to your blog. I hope you write a book and that we see you in a magazine one of these days..including your beautiful face!

girl, you got it going on. you have some really great curves now. weird, but i noticed (to me at least) that your arms look really small from your last post at 90lbs lost. you look so tiny everywhere! Hey, where'd you get those jeans? Tey look awesome on you!! lol. CONGRATULATIONS!! Good health to you forever, Joni.

congratsandyou look very proportional in your pics - maybe you mentioned this and I just missed it - but do you feel like things are shrinking evenly all over ? - are clothes working out easily for you (snug waist bands were my big problem)- ?

You look so fabulous! And thanks for sharing your measurements & height... I'm 5'7" and I started at 262 pounds, so this is really giving me hope and LOTS of it that maybe someday I can look this good. OK, maybe not, I'm older and going gray! Nevertheless, I'm motivated and I'm doing it!

I'm still getting excited by just 1/4" losses off my waist. So cool to see that the closer you get, the bigger the differences are!

I have a weird body... my fat stays mostly on my torso, upper arms and thighs. From elbows and knees down and neck up, I don't really look particularly fat. It will be interesting to see how things play out as I lose. I'd really love to lose some length off my feet, LOL! That probably won't happen though.

My hair is longer now, so the weight of it pulls it slightly staighter... more like loose spirals than the tighter curls. I also color my hair. I have gone lighter over the past year.

As for the thickness, yeah, I have noticed some thinning with the weight loss. I started losing some hair about 50 pounds in (back in '08), and then again about a month ago. I hate that it is noticeably thinner!! Maybe I should get some layers cut into it or something until it gets thicker again. I am taking Biotin and fish oil to try and help with that.

wow, you look great, this is great, not only b/c of how you look but all the emotional/mind battles you've won along the way. God continue to be with you and i'm so glad for you after all the suffering you've endured. What a victory! GO LYN!

I found your blog when I was searching for a low carb meatloaf recipe a couple months ago. (It's absolutely delicious btw!) Since then, I have gone back through and read your entire blog. I find your story very inspiring and you look amazing! Love the jeans!!

Thank you all for the amazing support and comments! Wow, so many people who care! I feel so blessed :)

Anonymous~

No one in real life knows I hit that milestone that day! Everyone of course has seen and commented how good I look, etc. I trained my kids well not to comment on someone's weight but I can see it in their faces, lol. I think I will pull out some before pics sometime for them just so they can be shocked!

Lyn you look fantastic. You have such a gorgeous figure. I am so happy for you today. I read your blog everyday and although I'm unable to find the strength and willpower that you've shown to lose that 100 pounds (awesome!), your blog really does inspire me. Thank you.

Oh. My God. Lyn, you're amazing. You've done such a fantastic job and I'm so happy for you. I've read your blog religiously for about a year. A year I've been struggling to get my head in the right place. Thanks to several posts of yours over the last few weeks, my head is in the right place and I'm headed in the right direction. I do have a blog but I'm not ready to "show" myself yet.

Thank you for the inspiration and congratulations to you. I know how hard you've worked for this and you deserve every ounce of the success.

Wow Lyn! You look amazing - what a transformation! In so many ways, huh? Physically (obviously!), and your emotional and mental state is so very different now as well. Watching your progress moves me, deeply. Good work!! :-)

Lyn, I've never even met you, and yet I am so proud of you. Your journey has really been inspiring, and I've been reading since the beginning. I got teary-eyed reading this post and seeing your pictures. Congratulations, from the bottom of my heart! You look beyond fantastic. Hold your head high, girl! You've done it! <3

Oh wow, I have tears in my eyes, I'm so happy for you. It can be done, you're living proof, now I just need to follow in your footsteps and believe in myself and long enough to see the results, starting right now, right this very second. Thank you for sharing your journey with the world Lyn. Much love, Diana

You look great Lyn! I'm very proud and inspired by your journey. As a slim chick, who has always been slim, I can't say I completely empathize. I wrote a post about it, and I'd love to hear your feedbck.

Lyn, when you said you'd reached 100lb gone, I decided to do the math (I work in kilos) and realised I have only 7 pounds until I reach the 100 too!! Thank you for all that you write, and for keeping us out in cyberspace motivated to keep going too.

I have been following your blog for a long time- and struggling myself with weight. You make it seem possible- that if you never give up, it can happen! Congratulations, the transformation is incredible!

CongratulationsF!!! Yes the jeans are very cute and you look great. I am also on a weight loss journey and have lost 25lbs. I have several more lbs to go but feel I have a good start. Your are a great inspiration. Thank you for your blog.

Congratulations! You look great, and must be so proud>! I love reading your blog, for inspiration and wisdom. I am not losing weight but I still find you inspirational. :) You look awesome, and your jeans are super cute!

First off, congratulations!! You look awesome and healthy. Second, after seeing your before pictures I'm shocked at how I have the exact same body type, and I carry my weight in the same exact places. Looking at your new pictures here is almost like looking into my future. Well, the one I'm dreaming of! I love your jeans, and love how free you look now. I'm so inspired to fight a little more every day.

I don't know if I am the only one out there that secretly wishes you will NOT show your face?

Because: I imagine my head on your body! I am 41 years old. Just like you. I was drawn to your blog the first day that I saw you in those black, comfy, white striped pants. I have the exact ones! I see so much of myself in your blog...

Lyn you are an INSPIRATION to all of us who have so far to go and need that shining light to help us through the darkness. And it is darkness. Food addiction is the only human frailty that can be 'seen by the naked eye' and makes its victims fair game for others to insult and pour their 'justified' (by the rest of the world) innermost feelings of inadequacy upon. We who are overweight, because food is our drug of choice, face loathing and ridicule, and at the same time, a Meth addict or anorexic receives sympathy and caring. I can't 'not' eat or I will die. If I eat too much, I will die. Finding the balance between what I physically need and what I mentally need is a task I wish upon no one.Lyn, you are a success story, a legend who will help so many through their darkest hours. If Lyn can do it, so can I. Put the drug in its place - it's just food, after all.Lyn I wish there were a million more like you in the world! You bring so much to so many, and your battle is heroic.

Congratulations! I hit 100 lbs gone in August, so know JUST how great it feels!! We did it - set a goal - accomplished it - now we need to stay motivated and keep it off!! Let's keep a check on one another to make sure we're on track!! You look incredible... congrats!! :)

oh lyn - beyond thrilled for you - you look amazing - what a great figure - you've worked hard for this - and deserve a day at a spa for a complete work ovrer - full body massage and then over to the salon and get a shorter bob - not too many layers - i have same problem with thinning hair - whisphy bangs... you are beautiful - but you've gotta go the next step and shoew your beautiful face with your children surrounding you...best to you - sooo beyond happy for you.. xo Patty

I am an infrequent reader of your blog, having read the whole thing in three to six month batches over the past couple of years. When I came today after a few months of missing it, I was so pleased to see your 100 pounds lost pictures! Last time I had checked you were on your way down again after some struggle and to see you hit such a milestone was just fantastic - I even said 'Wow, she looks amazing!' to myself out loud!

Thank you so much for maintaining this blog and for keeping going even when it was hard. Even though I don't check every day or every week I have been following your story and I think it is just a wonderful one.

Lyn - Haven't been to your site in awhile and OMG am so excited to see your 100 pound loss photos. You look amazing - what an accomplishment. I am sure you are tired of being on a "diet" but look what your discipline has brought you - and your kids, for that matter. And seeing the ex must be, uh, somewhat sweet these days... I wish you the very best in your maintenance, whenever you decide you're "there" and will continue to read your page because, as they say, the easy part is losing, the hard part is maintaining. I can't wait to hear what you have to say about maintenance!! have a great weekend and enjoy your new body - you deserve it!

congratulations :)amazing achievement and you look fantastic...hope to be able to post similar results for myself sometime, right at the start(again)of my journey at the moment.you are a great inspiration to show that it can be done.thank you for sharing. :)

Stumbled upon your great cornbread recipe while searching for Dr Oz's roasted chickpeas one, and am dazzled by your site!! What an achievement, and huge thanks for sharing the journey. Purely inspiring!

You look terrific, Lyn!!! Very inspirational. I found your pics while googling hair loss with weight loss. My hair is thinning rapidly after a 60 pound weight loss and I am starting to panic. Still have 20 pounds to go and want to have hair when I get to my goal weight. I'll try the biotin and fish oil. Did you hair start coming back only after you stopped dieting?

I also came across your website quite randomly while searching for low carb meatloaf recipes. I am SO excited for you!! You've done an amazing job of finding a beautiful woman under there. God Bless you!!

Firstly of all I will echo all of the WOWs! Awesomes! and every other compliment that everybody has given you! totally 100% amazing job.

But moreso, you have convinced me that I still can have a decent body if I work at it. Sometimes I feel like I've been so big for so long that there is just no chance that I will ever look "normal". But you look normal. You look better than normal, you look fantastic. Thank you again for posting these!

Oh my!I was reading your blog (I'm a new blogger so I'm reading around). I noticed your picture on the left hand side and thought to myself "I've seen this before!"I must have seen this a year ago. I was thinking about starting my weightloss journey, which clearly didn't happen. Now, I come back here and see that you have lost 100 pounds! I am shocked, yet motivated. My goal is to lose 150 pounds. I currently weigh 302 pounds.

Thank you for the inspiration! I wish you the best of luck continuing on your journey, and I plan to be back to read more.

God I can't bellieve how much you have lost! You look Amazing on these pictures and you have a nice figure. I'm also trying to lose weight by counting calories, eating healthy and exercising. I decided to create a blog with tips and my progress. If you want to have a look, tell me if you think I'm doing something wrong...I need support, feel lonely. You are doing an amazing job and are a good role model for many. Best regards

found your blog, also quite randomly. Congratulations on your weight loss and gaining control of your health and your life! Your story is very inspiring.

I, too, am 5'6' and I weigh 170 (90 lbs weight loss, not medifast, but) and am in a size 16 jean. What brand of jean are you wearing that is size 10? Not that size numbers matter, but I'm curious why my size is so different given that we have similar stats.

You look so beautiful! You looked beautiful before, but unfortunately if you want to live a little bit longer, you have to follow the dumb rules. I love your success and I hope you never forget how much you did on your OWN!

You are rocking those jeans girl! I am around your pre weight loss size and I am just starting my journey. When I shop for jeans I am a girl who loves cute pockets on my jeans, unfortunatly the bigger you get the less cute they start to look. However looking at your progress gets me excited to get to my weight loss goal too. Thanks for showing others that they can do it too.

Hi Lyn, Just stumbled on your Blog while looking for LC recipes. You are truly an inspiration! Congratulations on your weight loss, you must feel wonderful! Just started back on LC diet, my 3rd time, but made sure I had everything I needed to stick to it this time. Your recipes sound wonderful, bookmarked you in about 10 minutes of reading. I'm almost 54 and up to 285 at 5'6", so I can relate to your "before" pic, that's me. Doubt I'll ever see my 24" waste again, but I'd be thrilled to get into a size 12. Always feel healthier on low carb, less lung & sinus problems & incredible energy, not to mention how clear headed I feel only after a week, obviously the right plan. For all the time and effort you have put into this I have to say many thanks! You've given me hope that I can finally win this battle and change my way of living. Can't wait to show your blog to my husband, he's very excited about the LC and is adjusting to help me make it, he's lost s few pounds too! Best wishes to all! ~ Tracey

I have never left a post for anything before, looking at your pics and story I just had to tell you how inspiring you are. Just started on my long overdue weight loss journey, and am looking forward to losing. Inever thought to track my weight loss in inches I think that can be encouraging when the scale isn't so friendly. Again, I just wanted to say you've inspired me, thank you.

Hello Lyn! Congratulations! You look great!!! You should be so proud of yourself!!!!As for the thinning hair, I had the same problem couple years ago. My hair loss was more stress related than caused by the weight loss, but I started to take a multivitamin for women (Rainbow light Just once) and my hair stopped failing out within 1 month. I was very happy with it. Maybe it can help you too! Best of luck! JaneP.s. I do NOT sell vitamins!!! :)

Lyn, Thank God I found your post. It's my first day on Medifast and I need to lose about 40 lbs. I just have to say that you are inspiring to anyone who follows your progress. Thank you for being so candid. It's really a motivation. If you did it, I know I can too. Many continued blessings to you!

Hi, I stumbled across your blog last year and I 'bookmarked' it on my browser. I started my weight-loss journey then too. Whenever I felt lost or wanted to give up, I kept thinking of how you never gave up. Now, 11 months later, I am 36 lbs lighter, and I traveled from a size 16 pants to size 10. I can even wear a size Medium top from my favorite clothing store (I couldn't wear any top this store a year ago).I have a long way to go. I'm 5'1" and I still weigh 157 lbs (but some of it is muscle) but I know that one day, I will get to where I want to be.Thanks a lot, Lyn.

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